LEPUS. 415 
ears sparsely haired, reddish brown outside, with a narrow white 
border anteriorly ; curved black line at corner of eye across cheek; tail 
reddish brown above, white below; feet fulvous above, soles dusky. 
Measurements. Total length, 520; tail to end of hairs, 83; hind 
foot, 105;ear, 65. Skull: total length, 87; basal length, 79; zygomatic 
breadth, 40; mastoid breadth, 32; interorbital constriction, 32; 
length of nasals, 35; of lower jaw, 63; height of coronoid process, 37. 
428. palustris (Lepus), Bachm., Journ. Acad. Nat. Scien. Phil., 1837, 
p. 194, pls.15,16. Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., 1901, p. 279. 
douglast Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 1837, p. 586. 
Swamp Hare. Conejo in Mexico. 
Type locality. Eastern South Carolina? 
Geogr. Distr. Yucatan, Mexico, north to Texas; Florida; and 
North Carolina. 
Genl. Char. Size of L. sylvaticus, tail shorter; ears broader, more 
rounded; head larger; nails of toes exposed; incisors and molars, 
broader and heavier. 
Color. Above yellowish brown tinged with rufous or rusty (the 
latter especially on the rump and outside of legs), and heavily shaded 
with black; beneath grayish white; fore neck, breast, and sides yellow- 
ish brown; chin grayish white; throat brownish gray; ear grayish 
rufous lined with black; tail above rufous and black, beneath grayish 
white; soles brownish. 
Measurements. Total length, 444; tail vertebre, 38; hind foot, 88; 
ear, 64. Skull: total length, 79; greatest width, 38; interorbital 
width, 15; lateral length of nasals, 32; posterior width of nasals, 19; 
length of upper molar series, 15; length of lower jaw, 60. 
429 truii (Lepus), Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 1890, p. 192. 
True’s Swamp Hare. 
Type locality. Mirador, State of Vera Cruz, Mexico. 
Geogr. Distr. State of Vera Cruz, Mexico. 
Genl. Char. Similar to L. palustris, darker, smaller; skull with 
comparative differences. 
Color. Similar to L. palustris, but smaller in size and more mixed 
with black on upper parts, especially on the dorsal region; beneath 
pale yellowish except a broad yellowish brown pectoral band; ears 
black and rufous; feet pale rufous. 
Measurements. Total length, 335; hind foot, 75; ear from crown, 
54. Skull: basal length, 57; greatest zygomatic breadth, 35; inter- 
orbital constriction, 25; mid-palatal length, 11; length of nasals, 27; 
length of upper molar series, 14; height of lower jaw at coronoid 
process, 32. (ex Type.) 
